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Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by JetApartment: 2:48pm On Aug 19, 2023
Destroyerofyeeb:
grin All Yoruba people,legit hustle no be by chest beating and drug smuggling . Unlike some flatheaddded creatures from somewhere like that

It obvious you are cursed to be tribalistic, nobody mentioned anything about tribe until you this tribal bigot entered the group chat. You must be dumb to think one tribe does legit business while the other does illegal business, some animals are way smarter than you folks, even dogs are smarter.

Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by BabaIbo: 3:07pm On Aug 19, 2023
JaredH:
calendly will by seplat.. The owner is the richest black African immigrant in the US

Another mu² spotted.

Go and read up on the two companies before you carry your mu² come here.

Well, you are a em pty-hea ded person, that is why you don't know anything.
Compare the revenues, the companies worths etc.
Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by JaredH: 3:11pm On Aug 19, 2023
BabaIbo:

Another mu² spotted.

Go and read up on the two companies before you carry your mu² come here.

Well, you are a em pty-hea ded person, that is why you don't know anything.
Compare the revenues, the companies worths.
shutup
Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by BabaIbo: 3:12pm On Aug 19, 2023
Omoawoke:


Envy and bitterness won’t kill you

As e take keel you and your pa² abi?
Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by BabaIbo: 3:13pm On Aug 19, 2023
JaredH:
shutup

Your pa²
Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by BabaIbo: 3:13pm On Aug 19, 2023
Omoawoke:






VAR checked, clean tackle

Yellow card to you for raising false alarm


Way ray
Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by IbroMaka(m): 3:16pm On Aug 19, 2023
Which unicorn startup I go come found bayi?
Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by Omoawoke: 3:44pm On Aug 19, 2023
BabaIbo:

Way ray

grin
Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by 7upnigeria: 3:57pm On Aug 19, 2023
gaby:
Tribalism has officially taken over and set to annihilate this country.

What a shame

Forget shiit, am proud of my people. We didnt say your people's name shouldn't be there. Look at the way Yoruba people received Jagun jagun movie, isn't it clear to you that Yoruba people dont joke with their culture. If you have no culture and dont value your own culture, dont call people who support their culture TRIBALISTS.

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Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by IcemanFenedis(m): 4:17pm On Aug 19, 2023
Mine is next ohhhhhh... Billion dollars things
Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by perrychemical: 5:18pm On Aug 19, 2023
Dottore:
These guys are indeed great and should be worthy of being role models to many.
I noticed something among the yorubas and hausa you will find dollar millionaires and billionaires like one in every 1000,000 but you will also find a tremendous percentage who are feeding from hand to mouth, the very wretched and greater number of indegenous roadside beggars.

However in the South East you will find fewer dollar millionaires and billionnaires but 500 out of every 1,000 are Naira millionaires and billionnaires with potential for sustainable growth. 300 have the ability to easily raise 1million Naira in emergency. The 100 are are struggling while the remaining 100 can be called poor but fewer or negligible percentage are feeding from hand to mouth or roadside beggars.

Wealth is more wide spread in the South East than in any other region in Nigeria

You are probably smoking something for saying majority of Yorubas are feeding from hand to smouth. You can even say majority of Ibos living in Anambras State are richer than Yoruba in Osun State. Obiviously you do not know what you are saying.
Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by Ibrahimmufutau: 5:36pm On Aug 19, 2023
Nnaemiemax:
Inspiring!
millions of human capital begging for development in all economic segments. Infact God destined Nigeria to be the leading light in Africa but corruptive leadership and followership is the bane of our problems may God leads us to promising land Amin.

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Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by Fearyourcreator: 5:46pm On Aug 19, 2023
Azord:
Non of them on designers... Hardly seeing all these BILLIONAIRES ON CUBAN. THEM NOR DEY BURST ICE.
Na empty barrel dey make noise na
Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by Abufo: 5:55pm On Aug 19, 2023
Destroyerofyeeb:
grin All Yoruba people,legit hustle no be by chest beating and drug smuggling . Unlike some flatheaddded creatures from somewhere like that




Na where your eye see reach .......you go see reach! you sound like a pamper wearing toddler!
Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by simfrost90210: 6:04pm On Aug 19, 2023
obembet:
Here are the Billion Dollar Startups Founded by Nigerians and their worth

1. Cityblock Health ($5 billion) | Primary HealthcareCo-founded by Toyin Ajayi


Dr. Toyin Ajayi, our CEO and co-founder, has spent her whole career serving Medicaid patients. Here, she explains what we do, why we do what we do, and what compassionate care is all about.

2• Calendly ($3 billion) | Scheduling

Tope Awotona is the founder and CEO of Calendly, the modern scheduling platform for high-performing teams and individuals accelerating business forward. Tope founded Calendly in 2013 with the vision of simplifying scheduling for everyone without the back-and-forth emails

3• Flutterwave ($3 billion) | Fintech Founded by Olugbenga Agboola and Iyinoluwa Aboyeji

Flutterwave is a post Series A payments technology company headquartered in San Francisco with operations and offices across Africa and Europe. Flutterwave was launched over two years ago with the goal to build digital payments infrastructure for Africa and enable businesses receive or make any payments across Africa and globally. In two years of operations, Flutterwave has processed over $2B across all product platforms and has been the recipient of several prestigious awards including the "Best Technology Platform" as awarded by The Asian Banker, the "Top 100 Fintech Firms" among others.

4• Andela ($1.5 billion) | Software Engineering Place Network

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji was born in Lagos on March 28, 1991, to Reverend (Mr) and Reverend (Mrs) Aboyeji. He is a Nigerian native of Isin LGA in Kwara State. Heattended Primary School at St Saviour’s Primary School Ebute-Metta, Lagos. After earning his secondary school certificate from the Loyola Jesuit College in Abuja in 2007, he continued to the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Legal Studies.
Iyinoluwa is currently the CEO and General Partner of Fund for Africa’s Future (popularly known as Future Africa), Africa’s largest seed stage investor which has invested millions of dollars into over hundred startups across Africa. Prior to that he co-founded Flutterwave, a billion-dollar global payments platform connecting African businesses and individuals to the global economy and served as its Founding CEO from May 2, 2016, to October 5, 2018. In those years, he led thecompany to become one of the fastest growing payments technology businesses of all time, processing over $2 billion across over 50 million transactions.
In May 2014, Iyinoluwa co-founded Andela, Africa’s largest engineering organization that provides training for African software engineers which has provided training and jobs for over 100,000 African software and tech professionals. The company has received investments from Mark Zuckerberg and Google Ventures, amongst others. Iyinoluwa has also served his country as the youngest member of Nigeria’s Presidential Council on Industrial Policy and Competitiveness and as the Deputy Director General for Madam Obiageli Ezekwesili Campaign for President in 2019. He has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a Forbes 30 under 30 honoree amongst other awards and fellowships


5• InterSwitch ($1 billion) | Fintech company Founded by Mitchell Elegbe

Before establishing Interswitch in 2002, Mitchell worked with TELNET as the Group Head for Business Development after an impactful time as a Wireline Engineer at Schlumberger.

An alumnus of the IESE/Wharton/CEIBS Global CEO Program, Mitchell is a Bishop Desmond Tutu fellow of the African Leadership Institute. Building a remarkable career on his background as an Electrical/Electronic Engineering graduate from the University of Benin, Nigeria, he has won several awards, including the CNBC/Forbes All African Business Leader (AABLA) for West Africa, and Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Mitchell currently serves as a Board Member at Endeavor and is reputed as a High Impact Entrepreneurship Enabler.

6• Esusu ($1 billion) | Software company Co-founded by Wemimo Abbey

Esusu, a Nigerian fintech firm, has secured a $130 million Series B funding round to help build the racial wealth gap.

The company announced this on Thursday, breaking the $1 billion valuation barrier as one of the few startups with a black founder to reach unicorn status.

The funding round was led by Softbank, Vision Fund 2 with participation from Jones Feliciano Family Office, Lauder Zinterhofer Family Office, Schusterman Foundation, SoftBank Opportunity Fund, Related Companies, and Wilshire Lane Capital.

The firm said the fund would be used to scale its team and drive growth through product innovation while building the most comprehensive financial health platform in the market.
Abbey Wemimo, the founder of Esusu, said the company was established because of his financial exclusion experience while growing up in an immigrant home.

“We founded Esusu with the vision of using data to bridge the racial wealth gap and create more equitable financial opportunities for low-to-moderate-income households in this country,” Wemimo said.

“By establishing and improving credit scores, we are strengthening financial identities while empowering individuals, families, and communities to meet their long-term financial goals.”

7- Paystack by Shola Akinlade

In 2015, Paystack was co-founded by Shola Akinlade and Ezra Olubi. The two entrepreneurs founded Paystack which becomes a popular Fintech company in Africa. This platform allows payments to be made online.

Shola Akinlade is a software engineer and a technology expert. He is popularly known for being the CEO of Paystack and was born in Lagos State, Nigeria.

Before he co-founded Paystack, he worked from November 2007 to April 2009 as a database manager for Heineken, a brewing company in Nigeria.

Source: https://twitter.com/AfricaFactsZone/status/1692638083001270505?t=JhigUAXpttLZjSDEg4E3Xw&s=19


I Am Super Proud Of These Nigerian Elites

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Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by profmallor: 6:28pm On Aug 19, 2023
Fine analysis, but what has that got to do with the thread?.


Dottore:
These guys are indeed great and should be worthy of being role models to many.
I noticed something among the yorubas and hausa you will find dollar millionaires and billionaires like one in every 1000,000 but you will also find a tremendous percentage who are feeding from hand to mouth, the very wretched and greater number of indegenous roadside beggars.

However in the South East you will find fewer dollar millionaires and billionnaires but 500 out of every 1,000 are Naira millionaires and billionnaires with potential for sustainable growth. 300 have the ability to easily raise 1million Naira in emergency. The 100 are are struggling while the remaining 100 can be called poor but fewer or negligible percentage are feeding from hand to mouth or roadside beggars.

Wealth is more wide spread in the South East than in any other region in Nigeria
Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by IjebuWarrior: 6:48pm On Aug 19, 2023
Coder2Client:
90% of them are Yorubas.

I'm proud of you guys.

You mean Yoruba 100%

No be by noise making or chest beating like Okoro Savages!

Yoruba pass dem all, no be by mouth! Yoruba l'agba !!! grin

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Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by IjebuWarrior: 6:50pm On Aug 19, 2023
Dottore:
These guys are indeed great and should be worthy of being role models to many.
I noticed something among the yorubas and hausa you will find dollar millionaires and billionaires like one in every 1000,000 but you will also find a tremendous percentage who are feeding from hand to mouth, the very wretched and greater number of indegenous roadside beggars.

However in the South East you will find fewer dollar millionaires and billionnaires but 500 out of every 1,000 are Naira millionaires and billionnaires with potential for sustainable growth. 300 have the ability to easily raise 1million Naira in emergency. The 100 are are struggling while the remaining 100 can be called poor but fewer or negligible percentage are feeding from hand to mouth or roadside beggars.

Wealth is more wide spread in the South East than in any other region in Nigeria

Dem don come ooo. All una get na so so mouth. Delusional Savages!

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Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by IjebuWarrior: 6:50pm On Aug 19, 2023
spagettiluv:
walai
We no dey chest beat at all,only empty barrel make noise .
Wait and see how one emeka from a backward dungeon in abakalike come to compare them with nwewis audio billionaires

Baba you too much! cool

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Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by obembet(f): 8:16pm On Aug 19, 2023
kettykin:


What of air peace, slot, zinox , Etranzact are they not worth over a billion dollars, we also have others that are already acquired like hot stop by chinedu echeruo

We are talking about mutil billion dollar companies... ordinary Monipoint by Tosin Eniolorunda is bigger than all the company u listed and not even on the list

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Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by obembet(f): 8:17pm On Aug 19, 2023
soccerlite:


Thought interswitch was foreign owned

No, its own by a Nigerian like you

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Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by 3nity7: 9:05pm On Aug 19, 2023
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Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by int0x80(m): 10:21pm On Aug 19, 2023
Calendly is a very innovative and smart way for scheduling. He should continue to innovate, so many companies are already giving him a chase with more enticing features.

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Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by Augustenite(m): 12:05am On Aug 20, 2023
Coder2Client:
90% of them are Yorubas.

I'm proud of you guys.
All of them are Yorubas

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Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by Elxandre(m): 1:05am On Aug 20, 2023
Notably, most of them weren't born or didn't get educated in Nigeria.
Some of them don't even identify as Nigerians.
Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by dragunov: 2:25am On Aug 20, 2023
Rahkman:
Na only flutterwave still dey float and na only money laundering dey sustain them

Beef! Pepper bodyyyyyy!

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Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by bepositive11: 4:30am On Aug 20, 2023
Wodu89:



That's private. What is already evolving. It has gone beyond starting

Good luck
Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by wisdomkid: 7:34am On Aug 20, 2023
maestro299:
Nigeria is a blessed country with extremely talented individuals. Believe you me, there are individuals in this country who are even more intelligent and creative than the people on this list but they've been handicapped by the systemic accumulated rot that has blocked their access to life-changing opportunities. If we had a patriotic & sound political leadership structure to help unlock these human potentials, the sky would be our starting-point...

Everyone had excuses and reaches a point where they had the odds against them. Stop playing the victim card... It does not work on this thread.

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Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by DaCharis2016: 5:11pm On Aug 20, 2023
Who has an idea on how to found a start-up? Can we have persons with these understanding share more insights on this, probably we can work together.
Re: Billion Dollar Startups Founded By Nigerians by XAUBulls: 8:28pm On Aug 26, 2023
obembet:
Here are the Billion Dollar Startups Founded by Nigerians and their worth

1. Cityblock Health ($5 billion) | Primary HealthcareCo-founded by Toyin Ajayi


Dr. Toyin Ajayi, our CEO and co-founder, has spent her whole career serving Medicaid patients. Here, she explains what we do, why we do what we do, and what compassionate care is all about.

2• Calendly ($3 billion) | Scheduling

Tope Awotona is the founder and CEO of Calendly, the modern scheduling platform for high-performing teams and individuals accelerating business forward. Tope founded Calendly in 2013 with the vision of simplifying scheduling for everyone without the back-and-forth emails

3• Flutterwave ($3 billion) | Fintech Founded by Olugbenga Agboola and Iyinoluwa Aboyeji

Flutterwave is a post Series A payments technology company headquartered in San Francisco with operations and offices across Africa and Europe. Flutterwave was launched over two years ago with the goal to build digital payments infrastructure for Africa and enable businesses receive or make any payments across Africa and globally. In two years of operations, Flutterwave has processed over $2B across all product platforms and has been the recipient of several prestigious awards including the "Best Technology Platform" as awarded by The Asian Banker, the "Top 100 Fintech Firms" among others.

4• Andela ($1.5 billion) | Software Engineering Place Network

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji was born in Lagos on March 28, 1991, to Reverend (Mr) and Reverend (Mrs) Aboyeji. He is a Nigerian native of Isin LGA in Kwara State. Heattended Primary School at St Saviour’s Primary School Ebute-Metta, Lagos. After earning his secondary school certificate from the Loyola Jesuit College in Abuja in 2007, he continued to the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, where he received his Bachelor of Arts in Legal Studies.
Iyinoluwa is currently the CEO and General Partner of Fund for Africa’s Future (popularly known as Future Africa), Africa’s largest seed stage investor which has invested millions of dollars into over hundred startups across Africa. Prior to that he co-founded Flutterwave, a billion-dollar global payments platform connecting African businesses and individuals to the global economy and served as its Founding CEO from May 2, 2016, to October 5, 2018. In those years, he led thecompany to become one of the fastest growing payments technology businesses of all time, processing over $2 billion across over 50 million transactions.
In May 2014, Iyinoluwa co-founded Andela, Africa’s largest engineering organization that provides training for African software engineers which has provided training and jobs for over 100,000 African software and tech professionals. The company has received investments from Mark Zuckerberg and Google Ventures, amongst others. Iyinoluwa has also served his country as the youngest member of Nigeria’s Presidential Council on Industrial Policy and Competitiveness and as the Deputy Director General for Madam Obiageli Ezekwesili Campaign for President in 2019. He has been recognized as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a Forbes 30 under 30 honoree amongst other awards and fellowships


5• InterSwitch ($1 billion) | Fintech company Founded by Mitchell Elegbe

Before establishing Interswitch in 2002, Mitchell worked with TELNET as the Group Head for Business Development after an impactful time as a Wireline Engineer at Schlumberger.

An alumnus of the IESE/Wharton/CEIBS Global CEO Program, Mitchell is a Bishop Desmond Tutu fellow of the African Leadership Institute. Building a remarkable career on his background as an Electrical/Electronic Engineering graduate from the University of Benin, Nigeria, he has won several awards, including the CNBC/Forbes All African Business Leader (AABLA) for West Africa, and Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award.

Mitchell currently serves as a Board Member at Endeavor and is reputed as a High Impact Entrepreneurship Enabler.

6• Esusu ($1 billion) | Software company Co-founded by Wemimo Abbey

Esusu, a Nigerian fintech firm, has secured a $130 million Series B funding round to help build the racial wealth gap.

The company announced this on Thursday, breaking the $1 billion valuation barrier as one of the few startups with a black founder to reach unicorn status.

The funding round was led by Softbank, Vision Fund 2 with participation from Jones Feliciano Family Office, Lauder Zinterhofer Family Office, Schusterman Foundation, SoftBank Opportunity Fund, Related Companies, and Wilshire Lane Capital.

The firm said the fund would be used to scale its team and drive growth through product innovation while building the most comprehensive financial health platform in the market.
Abbey Wemimo, the founder of Esusu, said the company was established because of his financial exclusion experience while growing up in an immigrant home.

“We founded Esusu with the vision of using data to bridge the racial wealth gap and create more equitable financial opportunities for low-to-moderate-income households in this country,” Wemimo said.

“By establishing and improving credit scores, we are strengthening financial identities while empowering individuals, families, and communities to meet their long-term financial goals.”

7- Paystack by Shola Akinlade

In 2015, Paystack was co-founded by Shola Akinlade and Ezra Olubi. The two entrepreneurs founded Paystack which becomes a popular Fintech company in Africa. This platform allows payments to be made online.

Shola Akinlade is a software engineer and a technology expert. He is popularly known for being the CEO of Paystack and was born in Lagos State, Nigeria.

Before he co-founded Paystack, he worked from November 2007 to April 2009 as a database manager for Heineken, a brewing company in Nigeria.

Source: https://twitter.com/AfricaFactsZone/status/1692638083001270505?t=JhigUAXpttLZjSDEg4E3Xw&s=19
Impressive!

That's really mad cool.

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